Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

*Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire*
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
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Genre	Docudrama
Written by	Nick Murphy; James Wood; Jeremy Hylton Davies; Christopher Spencer; Andrew Grieve; Colin Heber-Percy; Lyall B. Watson;
Directed by	Nick Murphy; Nick Green; Christopher Spencer; Andrew Grieve; Tim Dunn; Arif Nurmohamed;
Starring	Sean Pertwee; Catherine McCormack; Michael Sheen; David Threlfall;
Narrated by	Alisdair Simpson
Composer	Samuel Sim
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producer	Matthew Barrett
Producer	Mark Hedgecoe
Running time	60 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	21 September –; 26 October 2006
Related
	Heroes and Villains; Rome: Rise and fall of an empire
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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire is a 2006 BBC One docudrama series, with each episode looking at a different key turning point in the history of the Roman Republic and Empire. This docudrama focuses on the Latin western half of the Roman Empire.